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Born in Prussia in 1841. Son of John Frederick Lewis, merchant of Burg, Magdeburg, Prussia.

Admitted pensioner (age 27) at Pembroke, on 1 May 1841
Matriculated Michaelmas 1841.
B.A. (4th Wrangler) in 1845.
Migrated to Clare. M.A. 1848.
1848 Exeter Fellow; 1848 Diggons Fellow; 1853-60 Fellow of Clare College.
Naturalised 22 February 1848.
Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at St Andrews, 1847-59, and of Mathematics, 1859-79. Resigned.
Hon. LL.D., from St Andrews, 1869.
Fellow of the Royal Society.

Married Sarah Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Cotton, of Upton Manor, Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Died 8 January 1890.
Father of Max Temple (admitted to Clare in 1880), and Francis Norton (admitted to Clare in 1886).

Born in Wisbech and attended Gresham School.
Matriculated at Clare, 1933. Read Law.

Became a Fellow of Clare College in 1913.

Master of Clare College, 1762-1781

Born on 28 August 1705 in Cambridge. Son of a French refugee, a barber by trade.
School – Merchant Taylors, London.

Admitted sizar at Clare on 23 June 1721.
B.A. 1724/5
M.A. 1728
D.D. 1761
Made an Exeter Fellow in 1727, Diggons Fellow in 1728 and Clare Fellow, 1730-1743
Senior proctor, 1745-6
Vice-Chancellor, 1762-3

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 September 1727; priest, 24 May, 1730.
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1742-47.
Rector of Fornham All Saints', Suffolk , 1747.
Rector of Westley, Suffolk, 1749 .
Preb. of Peterborough, 1761-81.
Preb. of St Paul's, London, 1770-81 .
Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1774-81 .

Died 25 October 1781.

William Greaves was born in Rochdale, Lancs and was the son of William, of Gartside Hall, Lancashire.
He was admitted to Clare on 26 January 1719/20.
B.A. 1720/1. M.A. 1724
Fellow, 1722-42.

Admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 03 June 1724 and at the Inner Temple on 09 November 1727.
Commissary of the University, 1726-79.
Steward of the estates of Trinity College.

Married a daughter of Beaupré Bell.
Succeeded to his estates at Outwell, Norfolk, and assumed the name of Beaupré-Bell.

Died at Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, 10 March 1787.

Born c. 1678
Son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffs

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on the 8 October 1694
BA 1700
MA 1703
Fellow 1703-1730
Ordained London 1705
DD 1728
Died 1730

"Dr Goddard's note says: 'He published a large folio of his own Philosophy'. This was i n1712. In it he combated the Newtonian views. He maintained that there was no such thing as vacuum and that the circle could be squared; held strange views of gravity, and regarded the new system as tending to undermine revelation. It appears that he was thought by his contemporaries (not without some reason) to be mad". [Wardale, J.R., College Histories Clare College pp.150-151]